Councillor Andrew Cooper, the Green Party’s Energy Spokesperson has responded to a Conservative minister’s speech on climate change today by describing her attack on “left wing anti capitalists” as a smokescreen.
Cooper said: “In the few short weeks since the Tories were elected we have seen cuts for support to the solar industry, the cancelling of high energy efficiency standards for new homes, the cancellation of the minimal support to householders through the Green Deal and an abandonment by Government of the Green Investment Bank.
“We are now told by the Minister that the problem with climate change policy is ‘left wing anti capitalists’. This can only be described as a highly cynical smokescreen by the Tories.
“The only rational explanation for the Tory assault on policies to address climate change is that there is a covert strain of climate change denial in the Conservative Party and particularly in the Treasury. If Government policy is being driven by an unscientific climate scepticism then the government should come clean and not hide behind paranoid, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”